We experimentally investigate the water/ice mixture- and freezing-front behavior in a water liquid bridge under isothermal and non-isothermal conditions. We find rapid propagation, temporary suspension, and regression of the water/ice mixture front, and finally, it merges with the freezing front when part of the liquid bridge is higher than the freezing temperature. However, freezing-front propagation follows dendritic ice formation, and a protrusion forms at the middle of the liquid bridge as long as the whole liquid bridge is lower than the freezing temperature. We explain those phenomena by quasi-stationary heat-transfer considerations.

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